The lucky stroke crippled me and gave me a new life. Now I'm just unbelievably good looking and modest. Always turn a little to the left.

10 Nov 2013

A CHILD ONCE. Don't forget when you were.

Once we were children

We liked to have mum
kiss it better

Why was the bed damp in
the morning?

We want to be a
little bit bigger

Wanted to be that bit
taller, that's all!

To stop wearing
shorts, having plats

Wearing long skirts,
trousers and all that

We were allowed to
play out, until it was dark

Then we walked to
school all on our own!

We sneaked things we
we're never allowed to eat

We thought to be
clever was every thing

Wanted mum and dad to
always care

Never thought what we
did frightened them

Then we started to do
more things on our own

Feeling more grown up
every day

Going to the movies
on our own

Seeing girls and boys
in a different ways

Though we were still
just children in lots of ways

Then our bodies they
begin to feel sort of strange

And the child started
to fade, fade completely away

The change to adult was
on its way

We never noticed when
the whole thing started

Never knew when the
child departed

It’s gone away now,
and now we know

We can't go back, we
don't need to grow

Though sometimes we'd
like to dream again

To be children again
and have the childhood things

In some ways I think
it would be good, good for a day

Then I remember how I
wanted to be tall

And how I got here
and that's about all

I am past it now and
it’s all right

I don't need a light
at night

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Would not it be nice
to think like a child

Just once in a while,
to remember the way

We used to play at
life, it was not real of course

But now, well it’s
real of course

Always remember how
to play, it gets you through the day

Stephen. W.T. Read (2010)

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